It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
LIZ TRUSSWe are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
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I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
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I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
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All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.
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It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
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I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
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I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…
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We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
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I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
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People want to start businesses because it’s a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
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Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
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I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
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I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
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Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest.
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The fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
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The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
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In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
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I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
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I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.
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We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise.
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I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
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And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
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